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SMITH IN WITNESS PROTECTION VOW

Jacqui Smith is considering new legislation on witness protection

Thursday August 23,2007

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that she will consider new legislation to compel witnesses to give evidence in high-profile shootings.

Ms Smith, speaking about the latest victim, 11-year-old Rhys Jones, said witnesses needed to feel confident to be able to give evidence.

Speaking on Channel 4 News, Ms Smith called on the public to help police catch the killers and said she felt "terrible" about his death.

She said: "I am willing to consider anything that will help us to get the information to put people away."

Ms Smith said: "Can I say how terrible we feel about what has happened to Rhys and how obviously our hearts go out to the family and the local community."

She added: "We need the community to help in catching these people and we will hunt them down and we need the evidence to be able to put them away for what they have done."

She went on: "One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police to be willing to come forward.

"That doesn't always mean that they will need to act as witnesses but we need people to feel confident about that."

She pointed to recent examples in Manchester and Birmingham where, she said, witnesses had been protected so they felt more able to give evidence.

Ms Smith also said areas of Britain where gun crime was high needed to have more resources targeted at them.

C0MPELLED WITNESS.....AN EXAMPLE

24.08.07, 8:12pm

Today at York Crown Court the trial of A. N. OTHER, who was charged with the shooting of an innocent child, was sensationally halted and the case dismissed.

Ivan R. Soul QC from the renowned defence Lawyers, MYLKA, DeZYSTEM and PROFFET had asked the Prosecutions main witness if he had been compelled to give evidence.

Joe Sapp told the court he had in fact been arrested, brought to court and threatened with contempt of court if he did not give evidence.

Ivan R. SOUL QC successfully argued that Joe Sapps evIdence was wholly unreliable.

ACTUALLY THIS IS FICTIONAL. IN REALITY THE CPS WOULDN'T PROBABLY BOTHER WITH A PROSECUTION

• Posted by: JackDoff • Report Comment

YOU KNOW THE ANSWER,WHY NOT DO IT?

23.08.07, 10:56pm

More legislation? What we have is not much good.
You know the answer,depoliticize the police,untie the red tape and their hands,kick away the egg shells they are forced to walk on,instead of undermining them at every turn, support them, put PC in the dustbin where it belongs, allow the police to do the job for which they are trained and put the "pretend police" writing out bits of paper and give support
to regular officers when needed.
Police officers do not deserve the flak they receive they are acting under orders,orders from
senior officers also acting on orders, whoever is pulling the strings let them go and give the public back what they badly want, law and order back on our streets.
P.S. Ask Tony Blair if he will tell us where he has hidden all those police officers that he told us he had recruited,they have been conspicuous by the absence.No more of that that they are not acceptable because they are white

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment